Motivational Quotes

Anger

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Anger

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out -- because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

Dyer, Wayne

The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both

I Ching

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Baldwin, James

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy.

Aristotle

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Hillard, G. S.

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.

Proverb, Chinese

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Wallenda, Karl

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Churchill, Winston

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Horace

10.

Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Floyd, Pink

11.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

12.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

13.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

14.

Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

15.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Renard, Jules

17.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.

Corneille, Pierre

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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Bacon, Francis

20.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

21.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Cato The Elder

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

23.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Maxine Waters

24.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Antonius, Marcus

25.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

27.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

Paley, Babe

28.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]

Bible

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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

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Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. [Ecclesiastes 7:9]

Bible

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Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

33.

Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

34.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Buddha

36.

A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.

Proverb

37.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Brown, John Mason

38.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Magnus, Saint Albertus

39.

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

40.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

41.

Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca

43.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Sarnoff, David

45.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

Epictetus

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Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Curtis, George William

47.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

48.

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Jefferson, Thomas

49.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

Ruskin, John

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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.